1933: The Edith Payne legacy
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 October 1933 THE LATE MISS EDITH ANNIE PAYNE: CUCKFIELD PARTICULARS OF HER GIFT TO THE URBAN COUNCIL...
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Mar 23, 20231 min read
1929: William Herrington - a beloved Cuckfield headteacher passes on
West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 24 January 1929 DEATH OF MR. W. HERRINGTON. Older residents have learned with much regret of the death of...
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Mar 8, 20231 min read
1942: Turn those lights out, Angela!
Angela Fox, Ockenden Cottage. Cuckfield, was fined £1 for for causing an unobscured light to show from a window of her house during the...
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Feb 27, 20232 min read
1913: Accolade for retiring Cuckfield PC
Mid Sussex Times- Tuesday 20 May 1913 A POLICE CONSTABLE’S 'LAST BEAT' A familiar figure of authority on the streets of Cuckfield has...
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Jan 8, 20237 min read
1913: Money thrown from stage coaches for the kids
This charming story about an old couple celebrating their diamond wedding in Burgess Hill is wide ranging in its subject matter and...
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Dec 11, 20222 min read
1955: Journalist and Foreign Office adviser dies
Mr Wilbraham Villiers Cooper, OBE, died yesterday at his home in London at the age of 79. Born in 1876, he received his early schooling...
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Nov 27, 20221 min read
1986: W.H.A.T.S.T.H.I.S.
Sir, The acronym is the darling of our age. One wonders how, compressed into their unpronounceable initials, such backward bodies as the...
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Sep 25, 20223 min read
1890: Town mourns loss of eminent Cuckfieldian after nearly 60 years of Service to the community
Mid Sussex times Tuesday 15th July 1890 death of doctor T S BYASS Today it is our painful duty to record the death, on Sunday morning, of...
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Sep 1, 20222 min read
1929: Cuckfield Constable retires after 26 years' service
Mid Sussex Times – Tuesday 19 March 1929 MID SUSSEX POLICE CHANGES CUCKFIELD CONSTABLE’S RETIREMENT A well known uniformed figure has...
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Aug 16, 20223 min read
2019: School for the deaf at Cuckfield House 1939-c1949
“A letter arrived in May which sent me to Psalm 46:10” – Mary Corbishley’s Oral School at Cuckfield House (1937-48) By H Dominic W...
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Jul 20, 20222 min read
1732-1796: Sir William Burrell - keen local historian
An account of travels through Sussex with Sir William Burrell by Francis Grose in May 1777 Following a visit by Sussex Historic Churches...
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Jul 15, 20225 min read
1947: What writers say about Cuckfield... (1)
1947: What they wrote about Cuckfield – Arthur Mee ‘Sussex’ (Arthur Mee 1947) Cuckfield stands 400 feet high on the Forest Ridge, and has...
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Jun 5, 20221 min read
1912: Daredevil headstand on the battlements
These few words taken from an article of a talk given by Canon Cooper in 1912 sends shivers down the spine - and no - do not endeavour to...
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Jun 2, 20228 min read
1927: The early History of the Coverts of Slaugham Place is revealed
West Sussex County Times, Saturday 5 November 1927 The Coverts of Slaugham Place The following is a paper read by Miss E. Kensett on the...
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May 31, 20222 min read
1892: The Queen's reward for a Cuckfield lady
The following interesting story is told in an English paper, the incident on which it is founded having occurred at Cuckfield: A lady was...
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May 30, 20224 min read
1936: Andrew Borde physician from Borde Hill - an interesting and curious character
Worthing Herald - Saturday 22 February 1936 Andrew Borde ‘AN INTERESTING AND CURIOUS CHARACTER' The original “Merry Andrew” Andrew Borde...
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May 26, 20222 min read
1989: The most famous occupants of Ockenden Manor
You couldn't accuse Timothy Burrell of breaking any social contract when it came to employing William Gates as a footman at Ockenden...
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Apr 3, 20223 min read
1992: The clearing where the cuckoo came
We are 30 years on from the Cuckfield 900 celebrations in 1992. To mark the centennial occasion this story in verse of the village...
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Mar 29, 20229 min read
1933: Cuckfield's tribute to one 'who occupied a great place in the neighbourhood' -Miss Edith Payne
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 15 August 1933 CUCKFIELD MOURNS A GREAT LOSS. Striking Tributes at the Funeral of Miss E. A. Payne The funeral...
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Mar 11, 20224 min read
Chain Walk, Place Walk and Spinney Field
The southern part of the village adds a lot of charm and character as the road winds its way through to the High Street. This area,...
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